The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-18
SOUTH CAROLINA.

The Star wants cotton factory estab-
lished at Marion.
1t is said that there is not an unoccupied
house in Florence.
The past Indebtedness of Georgetown
county exceeds 5000.
The expenses Of the March term of court
for Oconee county were only 1914 25.
A new cloth room is being added to the
buildings of the Huguenot plaid mills at
Greenville.
The Laurens Town Council has recently
appropriated IS, 100 for the purchase of
steam fire engine.
Anew Baptist church. to be known as
Antioch, has been dedicated at Felderville,
in Orangeburg county.
Bethel Methodist church was recently
dedicated in Orangeburg county by Pre-
siding Elder T. j. Counts.
w w. Russell is building a boat to be
used on the Keowee and Little rivers for
carrying croSStieS to the railroad.
The Abbeville colt show, which usually
comes off on salesday in May, has been post
poned until salesday in September.
A colored man named Martin died in
Union county recently, and after his death
the sum of $755 was found concealed in his
bed
The board of examiners for Horny county
are considering the question of having
normal school for the teachers of that
county.
Great interest has been aroused in the
gold mining operations now being carried
| on by Boston company near Glendale, in
Spartanburg county.
Maj. Woodward, one of the proprietors of
the RocktOn granite quarries, near Prosper
ity, has more orders than he can fill, and
thousands of dollars worth of work has to
be refused on account of the scarcity of
workmen.
During a heavy thunder storm which
passed few miles below Sumter at 1 o'clock
Friday, house three miles from town,
occupied by Frank Harvin, was struck by
| lightning and two boys about 10 years of
| age were Frustrated.
The Young Mems Christian Association
of South Carolina is holding its tenth an
| nual convention at Newberry. The total
number of delegates is eighty three, repre-
senting sixteen associations, the largest
| number of delegates ever present at q
Young Mems Christian Association in the
| State
| Senator Hampton was in Columbia Mon
| day and personally delivered to Gov. Rich
| ardson the engraving of George Washing
ton, obtained by him from ex-Secretary
Belknap, who cut it from its frame in the
old State House and preserved it as a
memento of the sack and burning of Column
bia. The engraving is in excellent preserva-
ton after its exile of twenty-five years. 1t
is a handsome work, engraved by Thomas
| B. WEIGH from the only original painting
| by Gilbert Stuart" On the back, in Gen
| Belknap's handwriting, is the inscription:
Taken from the hall of the House of Rep
resentatives, Columbia, S. c., ON the night
| of Feb. IL 1865, where it occupied a place
Nbs - l,afV. I,xrI
| BellInap, then Brigadier General of Volun-
| teers, commanding the Third Brigade, fourth
| division, seventeenth army corps"
At Chester application has been made to
| the clerk of the court of Chester county for
a charter for the Catawba Falls Manufac-
| turing and Improvement Company The
| application will be granted on April IL, and
| the organization OF the company will be
| effected shortly afterward. Ii will be CON
Quoted on the principle of building and
loan association. The holders of shares will
pay 81 per share per month. The promoters
of the enterprise hope to obtain ., 900 share
| holders, distributed among the four counties
of Chester, York, Lancaster and Fairfield
| This number would add s.. 900 every month
and $2i, 900 every year to the treasury of
| the company. After the lapse of eight years
and four months, with the CARRYING out of
the proposed plan, a certificate of stock in
| the company to the amount of 800 will be
| issued to the shareholders on every share of
! their stock. AT the end of this period the
company, with a capital of 100000, expect
TO buy the Catawba Falls property, erect
handsome cotton factory, and then proceed
10 the utilizing of one of the most magnifi
cent water powers ia Chester country.
The Sinking Fund Commission met at
Columbia Wednesday and remained in
session -four hours. Samuel Langley,
President of the Berkeley County
Land and Stock Company, fled
his application with the commission to pur-
chase all of the Owendaw and Wythewood
tracts, now the property of the State and
unsold The unsold portion of these tracts
amounts 10 about 1900 acres, and lies in
Berkeley county, on the McClelanville road
and around the Owendaw bridge, which
crosses a creek of the same name, navigable
20 this bridge. These are not forfeited
lands. The State gave consideration for
them, and holds umdisputcd titles. a portion
of the tract il finely timbercd, while there
is large section well adapted to farming,
the soil being very much like that of tho
famous Marlboro lands Mr. Langley pro
poses 10 give 2jc. per acre, the whole pay
ment amounting 30 over $1,000. Tho Sink.
ing Fund Commission has postponed the
consideration Cf this matter to "A meeting
which will be- called, and will obtain. mean
while all necessary information as 20 the
character 0t the land, the condition Of tho
timber how much Of the land can be- made
available for farming purposes, and what
The actual value NJ the land ~ per acre.
Nr. Langley bid hn. not bron rejected, bat
other may pat in higher bidh n they desire
a. dO so, and ODE Sinking Fund Commission
intites such bids This Is % part 81 thu lnnd
tbaf i. Reliry and J.. q. Brriun proposed
~ buy last year. bii forfeited on account ~
failure 81 comply with their contract
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